Alan Goldstein on Nanobiotechnology.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this article since I read it a few days ago. His use of the pace maker example is great.

The article itself is perhaps a bit overly dramatic but the idea of breaking the carbon barrier and exchanging information bidirectionally between cells and machines does have spooky ramifications.

I’m not too worried about unstoppable self replicating cancer cures yet but I agree that such technology would rapidly obscure the definition of ‘life’ past the point of usefulness. After that, who knows…